Enjoy a magicalious exhibit of more than 50 handmade fairy and gnome homes scattered through the sculpture garden. Visit the Arts Building to borrow a costume (or purchase one in the Gift Shop), grab a guide, and start your journey!

This exhibit is concerned with the discoveries that artists make at the seaside. How do the sounds, tides, colors, and textures inspire artistic expression? How does the sea affect the content, mood, and execution of works of art? How do artists incorporate these experiences - and even the objects they find at the beach - into their art? Works of art that explore these and other complementary issues, will be included in the show with a goal of creating a rich and textured exploration of our relationship to the seaside.

Art Blooms is a weekend exhibit featuring the work of more than 30 floral designers from across the region. Each floral designer is assigned a work of art in the Main Gallery or the Mezzanine Gallery and asked to create an arrangement inspired by that work of art. The results are surprising, beautiful, and provocative - and not to be missed. 2014 will mark the fifth year for Art Blooms, an exhibit co-hosted by the Calvert Garden Club and Ann's Circle of Annmarie Garden. Admission is FREE!

Floral Design Demonstration, Saturday, July 19, 10:30am - Noon
As part of the Art Blooms Exhibit, guests are invited to drop in on Saturday, July 19 from 10:30am to Noon, and learn about the creative process of floral interpretation. Designers from the Calvert Garden Club will share their design secrets during this causal drop-in demonstration. After the demo, guests are invited to tour Art Blooms Exhibit and take a walk in the garden. Reservations not required; FREE!

Inspired by the smart phone, the explosion of social sharing websites, and photo-editing applications – Insta-Artist will feature photos taken by a cell phone and edited through Instagram and other phone photo-editing app.

This exhibit brings to life fantastical myths, legends, fables, folktales, fairy tales, and the like. Around the world, from prehistoric times to the present, artists have been part of the story-telling process, giving shape and form to fantastical stories of supernatural beings, great heroes and heroines, cautionary tales, magical creatures, and more. In ancient times, artists commonly rendered images of these stories on walls, pottery, statuary, tapestries, and paintings. In more recent times, books, graphic novels, movies, apps, and games have expanded the way we experience these stories. No matter the time period, the artist becomes the story-teller and shares their spectacular vision through their art. For this exhibit, artists were invited to submit works that tell fantastical stories. The result is a vibrant and diverse selection that speak to the many ways artists enhance and bring to life myths and legends.

special note: there will be no Artists In Action Feb. 24-March 1. It will resume March 2-8.

Meet - Observe – Create

Join us for something NEW at Annmarie! From January 18 through March 8, nineteen artists from across the region will set up temporary studios in the Murray Arts Building at Annmarie. Guests of all ages are invited to meet, observe, and work with the artists! Each artist has developed a hands-on project appropriate for guests of all ages.

Tour the gallery to observe the artists at work, and then join in the creative process as you use their materials, tools, and techniques!

special note: there will be no Artists In Action Feb. 24-March 1. It will resume March 2-8.

Meet - Observe – Create

Join us for something NEW at Annmarie! From January 18 through March 8, nineteen artists from across the region will set up temporary studios in the Murray Arts Building at Annmarie. Guests of all ages are invited to meet, observe, and work with the artists! Each artist has developed a hands-on project appropriate for guests of all ages.

Tour the gallery to observe the artists at work, and then join in the creative process as you use their materials, tools, and techniques!

If laughter is the best medicine, then this exhibit might be just what the doctor ordered. This exhibit will make you chuckle, snort, guffaw, and laugh out loud - and decrease stress and boost your immune system!